PCOS Messages for September, 2000: Re: ; <Met and Preg test

Re: ; <Met and Preg test

From: Koolaide (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:36:43 -0500 (CDT)

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Holli... just had to respond to your post. I pride myself with being open minded and accepting of everyone's opinion. I am new to this board and newly diagnosed however I do not agree with your words. Or at least some of them. Yes, pcos is difficult to live with with many uncomfortable and unattractive symptoms. I do get sick. Very sick. Somedays I just cannot leave the bathroom or go to work with my barf bag. I drive transport truck and it's not an easy day to vomit while driving 80 thousand pounds of machine down the highway. But.. that is really besides the point. The point is this is the place to confide, question and even complain sometimes. We understand each other here, that's why we're here. No, most of us do not have cancer or aids or some other horrible diease, but we all have pcos and we all have feelings and we all bask here in the comfort of others who understand and lend us a shoulder to cry on. If this upsets you, perhaps you shouldn't read the posts, or at the very least perhaps you shouldn't bring people down as we have all been put for years. Our symptoms are real and our condidtion is real. I think we have all been made to feel guilty enough over the years, I for one don't want to feel it here. Enough said.

At Mon, 11 Sep 2000, anonymous wrote: >
>Glad someone agrees Stacey - the reason I "unsubscribed" the last time
>is that I got awfully tired of hearing about how the cramp in someone's
>left big toe was caused by PCO or that hearing loss could be a symptom!
>That's sounds awful but it really is annoying. I also get tired of
>hearing about people calling themselves very ill with PCO because I
>don't think that it's really the sort of condition which causes illness
>per say, but rather more of a group of undesirable symptoms which make
>life a little more challanging (I do not include infertility here
>because that's a whole other topic). I think you have to get some
>persecptive here - there are a million other diseases/conditions which
>make PCO pale to almost oblivion. Obviously it isn't great but it isn't
>the worst either - far from it.
>
>I guess I just don't like it when I hear someone defining themselves by
>having PCO - it sounds like a victim complex - I just can't stand that.
>I guess in my line of work, I see such terrible disabilities and illness
>that this condition sometimes seems pretty tame. This is not to
>minimize the symtpoms...more just trying to put them in perspective.
>
>That's my way of thinking,
>
>Holli.

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